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Sprint LTE Phones with a SIM Card

Originally Posted by AndroidFoneFan

Some one else will be by to fill in what I may miss, but Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA services and don't use SIM cards.
However they do sell phones with sim slots, these phones are meant for international use. The sim slot is to be used with GSM cell providers outside the United States.
While I believe you can buy these phones and use them in the US with a sim card from a GSM provider (ATT or TMobile), I think data speeds are only edge which is very slow, if you want the LTE data speeds you would have to use the normal Sprint or Verizon networks which don't use SIM cards.

Re: Sprint LTE Phones with a SIM Card

Seems like you have no idea what so ever, You are just spreading False info and this type of False info comes up when you do a Google Search and then People use it to make decisions.

Just for your info Verizon is a CDMA Provider along with LTE which uses Sim Cards.

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Maybe my information is wrong, but if our Google searches turn up false information all the time, then you are saying that Google searches that result in information that is derived from this forum is also wrong?
Maybe everything I thought I knew about this is wrong, I accept that that might be. It does not mean I am doing it intentionally like you seem to imply or that Google searches result in false or inaccurate information as you also imply.
If my post is entirely wrong I will remove it.

This is patently false. Verizon most certainly uses swappable, movable SIM cards that authenticate both the LTE portion and CDMA portion of the service..

This is what I thought. I was wondering what happens if I could get away with using the CDMA radio without the Verizon Wireless SIM card installed, remembering that authentication onto the CDMA network was done through the ESN and not through a SIM card.

Re: Sprint LTE Phones with a SIM Card

Originally Posted by i0wnj00

This is what I thought. I was wondering what happens if I could get away with using the CDMA radio without the Verizon Wireless SIM card installed, remembering that authentication onto the CDMA network was done through the ESN and not through a SIM card.

Seems to (at least on vzw for LTE devices) all be handled through the SIM now. I can swap sims between phones like you could on att and t mobile and it works the same.

Also when dialing *228 on a vzw lte device for service programming/PRL update, I get the message "A Verizon Wireless SIM card has programmed your service and updated your roaming capabilities" and it wont make the *228 call.